“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.” ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross My friend Diana’s WhatsApp profile picture is of herself hugging her dog, Zibby. Every time her name comes up on my phone, there they are. The two…
“Sometimes we fall for the same mistakes because we haven’t learned to love ourselves fully.” ~Unknown As long as I can remember, my relationships followed the same script. At first, there was charm. Attention. Sweetness. Intensity. That intoxicating feeling of being seen and chosen, sometimes for the very first time. Then, slowly, the cracks appeared.…
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ~Carl Jung I was sitting in my therapist’s office when she asked me a question that made me freeze. “Tell me about the last time something good happened in your life.” I opened my mouth to answer, then…
“Love life more than the meaning of it? Yes, certainly.” ~Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov When I was a child, there was a special moment during dusk when the old sodium lanterns switched on in the streets, morphing the world from one of saturation into one of yellow monochrome, and it always made me sad. One…
“True belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world. Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.” ~Brené Brown For years, I felt like I was always one step behind everyone else. Not in a way I could prove. Not something visible or measurable. It…
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” ~Anne Lamott You know that familiar routine: an exhausting day at work, a long commute, children, errands, messages, dinner, and notifications. And then—finally—rest at the end of it all. A soft, welcoming couch that curves in all the right places.…
“It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part.” ~ BoJack Horseman If you’d told eighteen-year-old me where she’d be at twenty-eight, she would have laughed nervously and changed the subject. That was her move, by the way. Laugh it off. Deflect. Eat…
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” ~Hermann Hesse My dad was intubated, so he couldn’t say the words back to me. I told him I loved him anyway. Instead, he slowly pointed to himself and then to me. “You love me too?” I asked. His eyes…
“When we avoid difficult conversations, we trade short-term discomfort for long-term dysfunction.” ~Peter Bromberg Have you ever looked around at other people’s lives and wondered, “How do they do that?” How do they seem so steady, so connected, so… together? From where I stood, there appeared to be a certain kind of person—someone confident, kind,…
Why is wombat poop cubed? Plus great photos. The post Why wombats have cubed poop – with photos appeared first on Green Prophet. Alemu Gonsamo, associate professor of Earth, Environment & Society; Credit: Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University Diminishing periods of snow cover in northern forests, shortened by climate change, are poised to disrupt a delicate…
